§ 1-10. Severability.  


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  • It is hereby declared to be the intention of the council that if any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Code or any ordinance is held or declared to be unconstitutional, inoperative or void, such holding or invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of this Code or any ordinance, and it shall be construed to have been the legislative intent to adopt this Code or the ordinance without the unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative part therein, and the remainder of this Code or the ordinance after the exclusion of such part or parts shall be deemed and held to be valid as if such part or parts had not been included herein. If this Code or any ordinance or any provision thereof is held inapplicable to any person, group of persons, property or kind of property, or circumstances or set of circumstances, such holding shall not affect the applicability hereof to any other person, property or circumstance.

(Code 1984, Title 1, § 230)